University courts
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
File
Acta Curiae at Sturbridge Fair, 1586-ca 1755
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.6
Scope and Contents
Contents as follows:Flyleaf: Memorandum of swearing of two searchers of meat, 22 April 1647;f.1 Note of loans of records from the Registry, 1753-5;ff.2-9 Blank;f.10 Decree for the annual proclamation of Sturbridge fair, 7 Sept. 1586;f.11-17b Proclamation in Chancellor's name for the fair, 1628-48 with corrections by James Tabor, Registrary;f.19 Memorandum by Tabor of happening at the Sturbridge proclamation of 1643 when, after the Under Bedell called 'God save the...
Dates:
1586-ca 1755
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Buckle Book, 1577 - 1588
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Collect.Admin.6A
Scope and Contents
This volume is the continuation of Utinam (catalogued as Collect.Admin.13) so called on account of the buckle to the leather strap. It contains fair copies of cases in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, acta and depositions, and memoranda of various kinds relating to the Vice-Chancellor's jurisdiction, including assembled records of individual probate processes. These include the probate account for John Denys, bookbinder, 1578, which does not survive in the original, and doubtless several...
Dates:
1577 - 1588
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Management Group
Judicial administration records, 1498 - 2004
Management Group
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/4
Scope and Contents
The category - Judicial administration records - comprises the records of four University courts: Commissary’s Court, Court of Discipline, Sex/Septem Viri, and Vice-Chancellor’s Court.
Dates:
1498 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
'Liber Utinam', 1549 - 1578, 1848
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Collect.Admin.13
Scope and Contents
This volumes contains judicial acta, including at Sturbridge Fair, 1549-78. There is an index by Registrary Romilly at the front, 1848.1550-66f.2: 1550 Cause Academie publice – names of Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Proctors and Taxors. Notes of three causes heard before the VC, 23 Nov., 26 May and 28 … - two horses killed and a debt for barley.f.2v: 26 Jan. 1553/4 Trinity Hall demands rent of a garden let to Robert Smyth and now seven years in arrears;...
Dates:
1549 - 1578; 1848
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Reports of proceedings in the Forum Domesticum, a court of the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of the Colleges, 1857 - 1882
File
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.45
Scope and Contents
This item includes records of proceedings in complaints brought by University members against tradesman and any resultant discommuning; also disciplinary action against undergraduates. There is an index to cases at the back.
Dates:
1857 - 1882
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Vice-Chancellor's Court records, 1498-1957
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/VCCt.
Scope and Contents
The records comprise act and deposition books, exhibita files and probate records.
Dates:
1498-1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).